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What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key
point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination
of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical
transformation than at any other moment in history. With book
production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting
literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were
being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on
Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's
Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between
author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and
corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of
literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in
Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of
nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his
personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might
owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a
genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists,
librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection
examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal,
historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking
fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in
the present day.
What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key
point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination
of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical
transformation than at any other moment in history. With book
production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting
literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were
being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on
Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's
Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between
author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and
corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of
literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in
Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of
nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his
personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might
owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a
genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists,
librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection
examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal,
historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking
fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in
the present day.
'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The
Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic
survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most
heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to
ourselves, the difference between a healthy and a divided mind, the
value of saintly behaviour, and what animates and characterizes the
mental landscape of sudden conversion, James's masterpiece stands
at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture.
Faith in institutional religion and dogmatic theology was fading
away, and the search for an authentic religion rooted in
personality and subjectivity was a project conducted as an urgent
necessity. With psychological insight, philosophical rigour, and a
determination not to jump to the conclusion that in tracing
religion's mental causes we necessarily diminish its truth or
value, in the Varieties James wrote a truly foundational text for
modern belief. Matthew Bradley's wide-ranging new edition examines
the ideas that continue to fuel modern debates on atheism and
faith. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
has made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Violence is rampant in today's society. From state-sanctioned
violence and the brutality of war and genocide to interpersonal
fighting and the ways in which social lives are structured and
symbolized by and through violence, people enact terrible things on
other human beings almost every day. In Archaeologies of Violence
and Privilege, archaeologists Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley
D. Phillippi bring together a collection of authors who document
the ways in which past social formations rested on violent acts and
reproduced violent social and cultural structures. The contributors
present a series of archaeological case studies that range from the
mercury mines of colonial Huancavelica (AD 1564-1824) to the
polluted waterways of Indianapolis, Indiana, at the turn of the
twentieth century—a problem that disproportionally impacted
African American neighborhoods. The individual chapters in this
volume collectively argue that positions of power and privilege are
fully dependent on forms of violence for their existence and
sustenance.
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